The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-15

Many of the orange growers about Enter
prise are planting the castor bean, both for
fertilizing and for the crop. They are
worth 81. 70 per bushel.
All business in the Circuit Court in De
Soto is necessarily suspended until officers
Clerk ard Sheriff receive their commissions
which will not be long now.
Tho Apalachicola river has gone down a
few feet and all danger to the railroad
bridge near Quincy has passed. Trains are
now crossing on regular schedules.
j. NJ Bourland contemplates resigning
the position of postmaster ut Pine Level.
There is a petition in circulation requesting
the appointment of Mrs. Jennie L. Hunter.
The Jail and court house at Pine Level be-
long to Manatee county and the officers of
DeSOto county, i'll which Pine Level is now
located, have no authority TO put a prisoner
in the jail without consent from Manatee
county.
The Chattahoochee, Fla, correspondent
of the NEWS under date of Aug Is, writes
as follows: The continued rains last week,
followed by hot weather, has ruined cotton.
All the river bottom corn crops are de-
stroyed. While our highly esteemed citi-
zen, Mr.. E. II. Pyles, was looking over his
ruined corn last week he came to small
island or knoll, and getting out of his
bateau and strolling across the small space
with the intention of killing some rabbits,
which are plentiful on the knobs in the
river bottom he heard a kissing sound near
by. On looking around he discovered a
large rattlcsnake striking and biting at bis
dog. He says he got a pole and struck at
the large snake, but the pole broke. An
other snake on his right began kissing. He
says that before he left the knoll he killed
ID large r0ttters, 40 rabbits, Is opossums
and big coons. Mr.. II. H. Spear left for
Atlanta to-day. He is a delegate to the In
ternational Farmers convention in that
city. His family accompanied him. The
merchants here are doing nothing.
During the present rise in the Escambia
river the flooded conditions of the swamps
are taken advantage of to get out cypress
timber, the men repairing to the work in
boats, in which they stand while welding
the AK. Thursday George Beckham, young
colored man, was thus employed near Quin-
tette, at which place he lived He had made
a cut, and was presumably preparing to
place himself out of the way when the tree
fell, crushing him and the boat. Several
companions of his heard the timber fall
and, not hearing any more cutting shortly
thereafter, went to the spot where they saw
the bow of the boat sticking up out of the
water and the tree lying across it. They
thought Beckham had gone home, and they
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tug or two the head of the unfortunate man
came to the surface, and they realized the
situation. Leaving the body where it was
they went as fast as they could to Quintette,
where they informed S. S. Harvey of the
occurrence. The gentleman directed them
to go back and get the body, which they
did, and a Justice of the Peace at Molina
was sent for. When the latter arrived an
inquest was held, the jury returning YER
dict in accordance with the facts here
stated. Beckman is said to have been an
intelligent man and good citizen.